Review on 🖌️ Lineco PVA Buffered Adhesive - Neutral pH, Archival Quality Acid-Free Formula, 1 Quart for Paper Board Framing, Collage Crafts, Bookbinding - Dries Clear & Flexible by Carrie Spencer

Judging by the reviews I really want this glue to be liked, but not at all! In every project I use this with I have a problem. I connected 7 blocks of text to it and everything was fine until I put on the covers. I had blisters around my mule when gluing the endpapers. I had to tear up, restore and rebind all 7 books. They were family projects and just journals, so I gave up the mule the second time around, although it still didn't make me happy. I'm working on it now, using dark paper to cover it. I could see that it started to bubble after the initial smoothing, so I tried smoothing it out a bit with the bonefold, and of course that wasn't a good idea. Now I have strange marks and will have to restore the boards, but definitely I would have to do with the blistering. It's thick, which is fine since I always thin my paste a bit, so it's not really a problem. I don't care if it's dry, it doesn't seem like it would be very pliable if you did a rounded back, it's very dry, not rubbery at all. I had a neat separate binding, although it definitely shouldn't have been. It just came loose on the first scroll, so I won't be using it again for that. Looking at this line I can see they have a different glue (composition) for notepads, so maybe this particular glue just isn't for it. Lineco has another PH neutral glue from Books By Hand that I've never had a problem with, so I'll just go back to that. But for now I've been at it since winter and can't ship glue so I'll settle for warmer weather.